Video: Occupiers use kids to block DC Convention Center

posted at 9:45 am on November 5, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

Isn’t it great when families get together for quality time? Take a break from TV and game consoles and go out together for a fun evening, like strolling through the park, going to the zoo, or … blocking doors at political events? Stephen Gutowski found the toddler shields deployed at Occupy DC, and wondered what idiot would put two small children in harm’s way.

Meet Mom and a few of her friends:

Stephen reports that only one protester even questioned the decision to put children near the door — and she told Stephen that she probably shouldn’t give an interview. Everyone else insisted in loud and nearly incoherent voices that the AFP conference that took place was victimizing the children, and not Mom and the rest of the protesters that put them in the middle of a security scuffle. According to a later e-mail I got from Stephen, one DC street also started victimizing these same children, so our candidate for Mother of the Year put them in the middle of a blockade of the street.

John Hinderaker and Stacy McCain have more video from the AFP “Defending the American Dream” conference that Occupy DC targeted yesterday that shows the scope of the danger in which these toddlers were placed — danger, it must be noted, that came entirely from the Occupiers themselves. Ed Frank looks at it from a different perspective in an interview he did with a wheelchair-bound woman who could not exit the convention center because Occupiers were blocking the exit:

The protesters are yelling, “This is what democracy looks like!”, but that’s absurd. There is a very big difference between democracy and mob rule, as the interview subject tells Frank. This is an attempt by a small coterie of radicals to silence free speech and free association through intimidation and threats of violence. Occupiers had every right to picket on the sidewalks; they have no right to block ingress or egress to the building.

And one has to wonder where the fire marshal was when this took place. Blocking egress from a building is a fire hazard, and had the DC Convention Center left construction materials in front of that door even for a short period of time, the facility would have faced fines and no small amount of shaming from the FD. That made this a matter for the city’s police and fire departments, not for security around the facility. If a fire had started in the building, there would have been a whole lot of people injured at those exits, including the two toddlers that Mommy Dearest apparently hopes to martyr for the cause.

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Why be upset? This is who these people are. They are the same type of folks as those of Pol Pot’s killing fields, or Stalin’s starvation of Ukraine or Mao’s Cultural Revolution. They are willing even to sacrifice their own young children’s lives for “the cause.” Which is why they get along so well with Hamas.

One of the reasons I’ve been unable to get to a TEA Party rally is because they always fall when I don’t have easy access to a sitter. Despite the fact they’re peaceful protests, my kids don’t belong at any political event. THEY’RE CHILDREN.

If this isn’t child abuse and child endangerment then those crimes have no real meaning. These children should be taken away from their irresponsible parents and placed in good christian two parent home in suburbia.

Those children need to be taken from the mother until she can show she has the ability to keep her children safe. To purposely put them in harms way is cruel. Does she love her ideology more then her own children? If so, she does not deserve to be their mother.

Didn’t Breitbart have an e-mail where it was acknowledged that the OWS protesters put the vulnerable at the front so that if something breaks bad in a confrontation with the authorities, they are right in the middle of it. That way, the d-heads can say “ZOMG, the cops are attacking [children, the elderly, the handicapped, etc.]

These are evil and manipulative people we are dealing with here. Make no mistake, they must be stopped.

The Left can be so transfixed by their political vision that they’re blinded to what they’re doing in the moment. I think of RFK: “I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”. Using kids to block entrances. Huh? Why! They have their vision, which is WAY out there, and that’s their focus. Like, achieving social justice. So what if their kids get trampled.

Didn’t Breitbart have an e-mail where it was acknowledged that the OWS protesters put the vulnerable at the front

Nat Hound on November 5, 2011 at 10:02 AM

If so, brings to mind Mideast terror groups using kids and the mentally retarded as suicide bombers, or of prison hierarchies or organized crime that use underlings to do their dirty work. Hardly Gandhi or MLK here.

Washington, DC IS the 1%. ALL of these protestors are living better than the rest of the country, and at our expense. For them to be protesting anything is downright comical. I’ll bet every one of those idiot parents with those little kids in tow lives in Takoma Park or some other lefty suburb around DC in a $500,000 house with two Priuses in the driveway. This is their idea of assuaging their constant liberal guilt by pretending to be part of “the 99%.”

The DC Convention Center management should have rounded up all the banquet managers, waiters and waitresses, cooks, valets, janitors, etc. and sent them out to tell these morons that every meeting, conference, and dinner held in Washington means JOBS for them!

Those children need to be taken from the mother until she can show she has the ability to keep her children safe. To purposely put them in harms way is cruel. Does she love her ideology more then her own children? If so, she does not deserve to be their mother.

IowaWoman on November 5, 2011 at 10:02 AM

I’ll bet she is out today shopping with her toddler in a $300 stroller, having a $5 latte and chatting with her friends about her wonderful protest.

The protesters are yelling, “This is what democracy looks like!”, but that’s absurd. There is a very big difference between democracy and mob rule, as the interview subject tells Frank.

That depends on how exactly you are using the word “democracy”. Strictly speaking, democracy looks a lot like mob rule. It’s that there is a big difference between a democratic republic and democracy: namely, the rule of law.

Apparently, they set up a 501c3 CORPORATION to take in donations (yet they hate corporations)

Those donations added up to half a million bucks just in the first month (placing them well into the top 1%)

The corporation was set up in such a way as to not pay any taxes at all on their top 1% income (’nuff said)

I believe those donations have to go to a bank account (!!!)

Given their immediate proximity to wall street, could that bank account be in a wall street bank? (horrors!!!)

They insist on policing themselves, and the worst offenders amongst them (rapists and child abusers) get nothing more than a slap on the wrist, if that (think insider trading for the analogy)

When they find out they have competition (homeless people who are hungry or thieves) they demand the govt (cops) bail them out by limiting access to the park (that they don’t even own…kinda sounds like cronyism)

The competition “forces” them to stop serving italian baloney and instead “forces” them to serve everyone brown rice (saving the guys at the top tons of money)

These are evil and manipulative people we are dealing with here. Make no mistake, they must be stopped.

Nat Hound on November 5, 2011 at 10:02 AM

I don’t know if they’re “evil”…that would require a certain level of intelligence I haven’t seen with these OWS dolts. I’m thinking they’ll burn themselves out within the next couple of weeks. When the media tires of them, or some big news story breaks, they’re done.

They’re not evil, they are tragically misled by professional agitators and organizers who have been at this a long time. Those people really don’t have any goals, they just jump from issue to issue and maintain their careers as professional agitators. We’ve seen them incarnated over the last 10 years as an “anti-globalization” movement, an “anti-war” movement, and now as an “Occupy” movement. Same sh!t, different day.

Now their footsoldiers are young people who have been tragically miseducated and brainwashed by the liberal professoriate in our colleges and universities, to believe that AmeriKKKa is a racist country run by plutocrats.

I don’t hate these kids, I feel sorry for them. They don’t even know what they don’t know. And they especially don’t know how badly they are being used by the cadre of professional organizers who could care less about them, or about inequality or anything else.

The child gets to hear her Mom throw out an F-Bomb or two also. I’m not inclined to think you shouldn’t ever have your child at a public assembly. But these angry/violent political demostrations. Straight up child abuse.

I love the “badass” at the end, with the dustmask, goggles and gloves, who’s in charge of “security.” “If the cops were to come in and teargas all of them, I would be pretty pissed off!”
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha… I’m sure the cops would be terrified!

I took my 11 year old daughter to the DC Tea Party Rally on 20 MAR 2010 that was the day prior to the healthcare vote. I was a little concerned about the crowd, tension etc, but it was very civil and there were a lot of children there. Moreover, we werent there to confront some assembly like this where I would’ve put her in a risky position.

“Where’s the Fire Marshal”? How about: “Where’s Child Protective Services?” Have them come down and take the child into protective custody and schedule a hearing on the mother’s fitness after she deliberately put her child in harm’s way.

The Daily Caller video is great and infuriating. The campaign commercials are being shot by the media. All they need is a little voice over tying the protests to Obama and it’s good to go. Republicans can’t screw it up, can they?

Yes. And will. The opportunities handed to republicans over the past few months are a feast — an utter embarrassment — of riches. The increasing vulgarity, idiocy, hypocricy, incoherence, violence and brazen social sedition of the Left — and the media’s nakedly obvious collusion — not only represent political opportunities for conservatives but call for a passionate defense of America and free-market capitalism. Where is it? The comments from our leading candidates for president range from vague admonitions to mealy empathy for the protestors. Where is the GOP? We’re being failed by EVERYBODY.

Do you think it was a coincidence that it was two ladies who ended up on the ground?

Cindy Munford on November 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM

Well said, and nope. The smaller, weaker members are talked a good game but always end up being the ones under the bus where radical leftists are concerned – smaller women, unborn children, born children used as human shields, you name it.

I’d still protect him from things like this. What is wrong with these people?

Sekhmet on November 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM

Because individual human beings aren’t precious and valuable to them (radical leftists, that is, not *all* liberals) – not even their own children. Where the “ends” are concerned, individuals are merely “means”.

It’s really as simple as that. HIstory bears that out and here it is on display yet again.

The smarter protesters left the field early on when they looked around and recognized that they were camping out with a bunch of criminals organized by ACORN and the unions. What we are left with is a crew of deeply disturbed individuals who show up for a per diem, free food and nookie in the tents. The protests have devolved into criminal activity and should be treated as such by authorities. We are losing control of the rule of law. Rack it.

The only one we know for sure from the vid is Pink Coat, the mom of at least two of the kids according to her own words (“they’re my children”). She was too busy screaming “NO JUSTICE NO PEACE, F*** THE POLICE” to look after her own kids who were in the middle of the scrum. Un. Be. Lievable.

I am sorry. I have no tolerance for fools such as these. If I were a cop there I would be on paid leave already because of all the heads I would have busted open. Most of these cowards are even afraid to show their faces. I just hope and pray that innocent children are not around when the guns come out to thin out the herd of commie bastards. You can protest but when you become a menace to society or your children you deserve to be taken out.

No, they are definitely evil. There are more videos out there where these upper middle class white thugs are knocking down elderly women, harassing parents with small children, stopping cars with small children, and all sorts of other crap.

I am really looking forward their heads getting cracked and what little brains they have leaking out.

If I were in a car, I would just keep slowly moving forward, they could get out of the way or not. Or, maybe, it would be better to drive at normal speed honking your horn? They can’t claim they didn’t see you and it was their choice to stay and get hit. Do they have any idea how terrifying it is to be surrounded by screaming goons? It’s like Night of the Living Dead.

I bet they think they can’t take advantage of the OWSies because they have that Tea Party stone hanging around their neck.

Cindy Munford on November 5, 2011 at 11:18 AM

I have been trying to figure out this as well.
Could it be that the Republican leadership believes that it will lose the public debate because Obama supports the OWS operation and the media supports Obama? Does the Republican leadership fear that it would be playing into Obama’s hands to criticize the OWS crowd? If so, that is another reason we need new Republican leadership.

No, they are definitely evil. There are more videos out there where these upper middle class white thugs are knocking down elderly women, harassing parents with small children, stopping cars with small children, and all sorts of other crap…
Blake on November 5, 2011 at 11:53 AM

She’s still worried about your US Military memebers turning into violent terrorists.

hawkdriver on November 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM

The headlines write themselves, but I haven’t read any that have connected the dots. I mean OWS is based on the Arab Spring after all.

I was reading the Daily Caller article on this, and someone wanted to know, where all these intellectual protesters are coming from.

Another missing headline in the blogsphere. Where are these protesters coming from?

Craig’s list ads placed by ACORN. ACORN that Obama used to organize for. The same Obama that has received 1/3 of all Wall Street campaign donations to date.

The bloggers think that this is common knowledge, it’s just a given that people know. I would be repeating- saturating the ACORN connection, and Janet Napolitano’s description of man made terrorist, and the new left progressive’s 3rd world vision for the last super power. Is this the democrat’s vision for America, rabble rousing in the street? Is this what Americans deserve from their government? Their government is turning the mob lose on them, and have stopped enforcing the laws to protect the American public, and tax paper – their employer.

This didn’t work when Nixon was running for reelection he won in a landslide, and it looks like history is getting ready to repeat itself in 2012. I don’t know anyone in the middle class that is signing up for mob rule 101. These scenes at these so called protest are repellent to say the least.